YouTube fame and making a living.

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"The people on YouTube are hard-working people, and they make a good living doing it," which is something that director Dan Dobi said he wanted to show with "Please Subscribe."
That living is made through Google's AdSense program, which allows users to open their YouTube accounts to advertisers, after which Google selects the highest bidder. YouTubers get a cut of the profits. Some, according to Socialblade.com, earn millions of dollars a year.
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The Denton, Texas, YouTuber who only goes by the name Laina hit it out of the park with her very first video parodying "Beliebers." It made her an Internet meme for what became known as the "Overly Attached Girlfriend" face, which earned her more than 844,000 subscribers, a full-time YouTube career that pays her bills, and an invite to appear on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."
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"Double Rainbow" fan Vasquez was invited to appear at a high school in Iceland after his video got 38 million views.
"They toured me around the country, made me a festival where they sang, danced, did a play, made me a mural and a throne to watch it all. The parents came out, they made me protector of the student body, decorated the school in rainbows and after the performance surrounded me, hugging and kissing me like I was a king."
And what of the other benefits?
"AdSense alone pays my phone and Internet bill," he said.
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CNN News: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/showbiz/youtube-famous-american-journey-irpt/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Interesting. Do you have what it takes to have more than million viewers/followers? I wish I could come up with something that could reach that goal, haha.
 
I have considered starting a gaming channel for fun, mostly to get myself to play more games. It would force me to actually complete things. I've also had a lot of trouble getting into new games recently.. been stuck playing old ps1/ps2 stuff for months with the exception of my handhelds.

I wouldn't care if it did well, but I think it would just because I'm a girl. I suppose we'll see, one day.
 
I've thought about doing the review/preview for video games using sign language for Deaf people. Not sure how well/popular it'll get, lol. I've met quite handful of people (mostly hearing) who are very interested in learning sign language. I'm not a video-person myself but I'm willing to try out and see. Maybe...
 
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Smurfboy said:
I've thought about doing the review/preview for video games using sign language for Deaf people. Not sure how well/popular it'll get, lol. I've met quite handful of people (mostly hearing) who are very interested in learning sign language. I'm not a video-person myself but I'm willing to try out and see. Maybe...
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Considering there is a couple forums dedicated to gamers who are deaf, it would probably do extremely well! I also can't seem to find any game reviews in ASL on YouTube.. if you ever do that, it wouldn't hurt to sign up to those forums. ;)

You should do it!
 
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If I were a cat I could be a Youtube star.
 
I was wondering how many subs and hits translate into a solid living. There's a guy called Danny2462 who specializes in glitching the hell out of Kerbal Space Program, and his subs are somewhere around 50K+. He does seem eager to monetizing his video, which I have no problem with, I was wondering how much money he's getting.
 
i have a youtube with ads on it.

i have been using ads for about two years now, and finaly this next month I will reach my 100.00 minimum and get paid.
but hey it's 100.00 i didnt have before. But i dont get a ton of views. obviously right?

knowing how much i make (close to 5.00 a month) with the minimal views I get. i am sure that people like ray williams johnson who gets multiple millions of views every week, makes a pretty good living.
 
I wonder how you actually make money on youtube? How does it work exactly, anyone know? Just curious...
 
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I wonder how you actually make money on youtube? How does it work exactly, anyone know? Just curious...
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Apparently, if your video gets popular enough, YouTube pays you for the advertisements that play before your video.

Or something like that.
 
Soldier Gryphon said:
Apparently, if your video gets popular enough, YouTube pays you for the advertisements that play before your video.

Or something like that.
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its not if your video gets popular enough. you can monitize any of your videos. it just runs through google adsense. So its just like any site that uses google ads.
I get money for each view and slightly more for each click.

like here is what mine says for the last seven days

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25

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4.44%

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$0.04

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$2.00

now I am not sure what any of that means actually. But I just know that on the 15th of every month I can see how close I am to getting paid.
Google won't pay you until you reach $100.00 miniumum
 
I HATE those ads before the videos will play. I've smashed my way through 6 monitors. All advertising sux.
 
BarbieQueue said:
I have considered starting a gaming channel for fun, mostly to get myself to play more games. It would force me to actually complete things. I've also had a lot of trouble getting into new games recently.. been stuck playing old ps1/ps2 stuff for months with the exception of my handhelds.

I wouldn't care if it did well, but I think it would just because I'm a girl. I suppose we'll see, one day.
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Brianna is that you?
 
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I HATE those ads before the videos will play. I've smashed my way through 6 monitors. All advertising sux.
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Agree. I don't watch any ads on TV, always switch off ads on the radio, etc.

The ads on YouTube are one of the only places where I cannot escape advertising, and it bugs me. I'm not going to smash a monitor, but I either mute it or click the "skip ad" button ASAP. The worst are the ones that make you watch the whole commercial before they'll show you the content. I often will just close the window and skip watching the video, because I don't want to be required to watch an ad first.
 
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when you post a video you have the option of either picking video ads, over lay text ads, or a combination.

i dont mind the over lay ads since they show up a few minutes in and can be clicked off.

what i dont like is a 30 second video ad and the youtube video is like 15 seconds long.

but i guess i can't complain since i have ads on mine too.

whats fun is if you go back and watch real old videos (like greg solomon) from before the ads were on there. they talk alot about using paypal donation buttons and how that is bad news for the community.

m y how things have changed/.
 
I have a vid on my channel with over 2k views. Is it too late to make money from that?
 
you wont make any money of your 2000 views (obvioulsy). It sucked for me too because I have like 5 or so videos that have around 10,000 views, but I didnt get ads till they were almost at that point.
but you will get money for any views after that (if you monitize it).
 
Man. I wonder how much Pewdiepie makes? 14 Million+ Subscribers goddamn.
 
Soldier Gryphon said:
Ads are what make YouTube (and other websites on the Internet) free.
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my time is money! LOL But seriously the worst are TV ads... "BUT WAIT!" Just pay separate postage and handling of 9 million dollars and get TWO that's right TWO used toilet paper squares for the price of ONE!! and then the tiny print that shows for .0035 seconds, followed by a 1 800 number that's repeated 14 times. Oh, and the fact that ALL TV commercials are cranked 300.5 DB above the shows.
Don't get me started about the blonde bimbos yelling at you about buying a car.
 
My favorite are local commercials. It's like every local business that makes a commercial is competing against all other local businesses to see who can make the worst commercial ever imagined.
 
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